https://github.com/vsoch/watchme

Reproducible watchers for research
https://github.com/vsoch/watchme

changes cron reproducible watcher website

Last synced: 28 days ago
JSON representation

Reproducible watchers for research

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/vsoch/watchme
• Owner: vsoch
• License: mpl-2.0
• Created: 2019-03-26T17:28:33.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-08-05T23:11:32.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-02T07:37:52.596Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: changes, cron, reproducible, watcher, website
• Language: HTML
• Homepage: https://vsoch.github.io/watchme/
• Size: 8.64 MB
• Stars: 878
• Watchers: 13
• Forks: 32
• Open Issues: 7
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • Contributing: .github/CONTRIBUTING.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
  • License: LICENSE
  • Code of conduct: .github/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
  • Citation: CITATION.cff

Awesome Lists containing this project

README

        
# WatchMe

![https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vsoch/watchme/master/docs/assets/img/logo_small.gif](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vsoch/watchme/master/docs/assets/img/logo_small.gif)

[![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/177837425.svg)](https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/177837425)

[![DOI](http://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.01388/status.svg)](https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01388)

[![CircleCI](https://circleci.com/gh/vsoch/watchme.svg?style=svg)](https://circleci.com/gh/vsoch/watchme)

Reproducible watching of web changes. Good for:

 1. Monitoring system resources (battery, network, memory, cpu, etc.)

 2. Waiting for job postings to change or appear

 3. Monitoring some subset of prices from different vendors

 4. Tracking changes in GitHub repositories (stars, etc.) over time

 - [documentation](https://vsoch.github.io/watchme)

 

WatchMe can watch for changes to an entire page, or a specific section of it.

It's appropriate for research use cases where you want to track changes in one

or more pages over time. WatchMe also comes with psutils (system tasks) built

in to allow for monitoring of system resources. Importantly, it is a tool that

implements *reproducible monitoring*, as all your watches, are stored in a 

configuration file that can easily be shared with others

to reproduce your watching protocol. For more information, see the

[documentation](https://vsoch.github.io/watchme). 

[Docker bases](https://quay.io/repository/vanessa/watchme?tab=tags) are

also available for monitoring processes inside containers.

## Limitations

Watchme uses [cron](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/crontab.5.html) for

scheduling jobs. This means that if a system was shutdown and then started again

after some time, watchme will not recover missing jobs during that period. If

you have ideas for how to better schedule jobs that you want added to the library,

please [open an issue](https://github.com/vsoch/watchme)!

## Licenses

This code is licensed under the MPL 2.0 [LICENSE](LICENSE).